The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century

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A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the era In the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples,

Dipti Khera is associate professor in the Department of Art History and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Twitter @KheraDipti

"Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University" "Winner of the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize, American Institute of Indian Studies" "Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association" "Shortlisted for the BASAS Book Prize, British Association for South Asian Studies" "[Khera is] at her considerable best when engaging directly with artworks. Here her writing becomes like a magnifying glass pick ing out details that might otherwise have gone unnoticed and explaining their significance."---Peter Parker, Apollo Magazine